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noun, plural no·men·kla·tu·ras.
a select list or class of people from which appointees for top-level government positions are drawn, especially from a Communist Party.
Origin:
1980–85; < Russian nomenklatúra literally, nomenclature
1980–85; < Russian nomenklatúra literally, nomenclature
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